Blackscreen after couple of hours playing (PC)

[nothinghyper]

Hi Everyone,

After couple of hours playing a game i get blackscreen , i can still hear the sounds and i can move the character but the image doesnt come back until i reset the computer. I have tried running Furmark 1080p settings fullscreen for 7 hours and didnt encounter the same problem. It used to give me an error as driver not responding so i have installed only the driver itself and not the radeon software since than that message doesnt come up anymorre but i still have the same issue. Sometimes it happens after 30 mins gaming time , sometimes after 3 hours , sometimes even after 6 hours of gamin its just random.

What might be the problem ?

System :

CPU: Intel Core i5-3470 (3.2 GHz base, 3.6 GHz turbo)
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB
RAM: 16 GB DDR3
Storage: 512GB SSD
PSU: 650W
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H61M-S1

[DynaxSC]

Can be anything, an hardware issue, overheating, or a software glitch in the driver, OS or the game software code itself. Try a different GPU, best the same make and model, if failure continues, then ist software. If failure does not come back, then its hardware. Try different driver, also older versions. Sometimes new drivers have recurring software bugs
already repaired, but added again by accident by the developers. Could also be memory leaks, so free RAM available decreasing with play time until RAM is fully used, check memory usage with Task Manager eventually upgrade RAM, similar issue could be with missing disk space. Also your HW is quite old, so could be not powerfull and/or supported enough for actual OS and gaming software versions, I'd recommend to evaluate to upgrade this HW, at least motherboard, cpu to 8'th or better 10'th gen and ram to ddr4/32GB. Check what are the min. HW requirements for the game and your OS. SSD if it's SATA, then it would be also much better to have M.2 PCIe SSD (NVME) instead of SATA, this makes beside RAM capacity really the qualitative biggest difference in system performance.